The American army’s goodbye
After the liberation, the American army stayed in Western Bohemia until November 1945, when the soldiers left Czechoslovakia. As a goodbye, on 20 November 1945, a grand military parade was organised in Pilsen, which was attended, among others, by US ambassador Lawrence Steinhardt and the Czechoslovak Minister of Foreign Affairs, Jan Masaryk. The young Mojmír Fencl was especially fascinated by the American military vehicles, which had been thoroughly cleaned and repainted by the soldiers so that they shone. “You’d stand by the pavement and the tanks would go by, the street would always sway under their weight. It was joyous, it was the end of the war. Everyone respected the Americans,” Mojmír Fencl recalled.
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